Lauderdale Lakes Council Oks Improvements For Eastgate Park

LAUDERDALE LAKES — City Council members plan this week to purchase the turf needed at Eastgate Park to ensure the six-acre park is finished by the end of this year.

Eastgate Park must be finished by Dec. 31 to meet requirements for an $83,000 state grant that will be used to partially pay for the $430,000 athletic park.

One of the final steps toward completing the park will be the purchase and planting of the sod, according to council member Sam Goldstein. A special meeting has been called for 10 a.m. Thursday to hurry along the buying of $23,715 worth of Bermuda grass.

Prior to planting the sod, the ground will be fumigated.

Once the grass is in place it will take about three weeks before the fields can be played on, Goldstein said.

Bermuda grass does not have runners, the horizontal stems other Florida grasses have. The lack of runners reduces the chance of a person turning an ankle or stumbling while playing on the sod, Cohan said.

The contract is scheduled to be awarded to Southern Turf Nurseries Inc.